Anyone keep A. aquaticas? aka water spiders

[Krakilin]

And is it possible? I'd imagine you would have to secure the top and keep it in like a 5g fish tank? That sounds so fun!!

If any of you guys have pics of a setup please post!

 

[TNeal]

I would love to keepthose and have asked about them on this board. Trouble is nobody knows where to get them.

If you find some let me know,

Tom

 

[DJ_AlMighty_247]

This spider lives here in Finland. It's easy to find, lives in swamp lakes

You can keep the spider(s) in a watertank with some waterplants. It builds a bubble under it's web. It's a fast swimmer and a good hunter too

- http://www.hlasek.com/foto/argyroneta_aquatica_6912.jpg

- http://www.biopix.dk/Temp/Argyroneta aquatica 00005.JPG

- http://www.judywoods.bravehost.com/freshwater/watspider.html

 

[beetleman]

:clap: wow those are way cool! they would fun to keep.

 

[Water spider]

My favourite species of spiders. (I bet you didn't guess that)

I must get some of them again this summer.
Unfortunately I lost most of my pictures because of computer problems, but I will try to look if I have any left of these. I sort of had trouble photocraphing them, though, but I might have pictures of my setups.


They are much prettier in nature then in the pictures.

 

[watchu]

Water spider it would be very nice if you could give some pictures of your setups. These spiders seem to be very interesting but I have no idea how to prepare a setup for them

 

[Water spider]

I have kept them in Kritter keepers or big jars.

They are actually easy to keep, just make sure there's lot of plants, and I have also provided them a possibility to climb out of water, which they occasionally used.

Like DJ_AlMighty_247 said, these are good hunters, and will prey on a number of aquatic insects, and you can feed them mealworms too.